When the army arrived for the Pyramids, imperishable monuments of the antique Egyptian civilization: "Soldiers, exclaimed Bonaparte, think that top of these Pyramids forty centuries contemplate you" the army, seizure of surprised and admiration, burned to achieve wonders, as if it had had as witnesses all the heroes of antiquity.

Formed in squares, it opposed an insuperable barrier to the cavalry of the Mamelukes and put it in rout.

Two days after Bonaparte entered to Cairo (July 1798).

The English admiral Nelson had his victory with a movement of a great boldness: the French vessels were arranged on line with little distance of the coast; Nelson, launching a part of its vessels between the shore and the French fleet, took it between two fires and struck down our ships the ones after the others; the French admiral Brueys died bravely on his bench of quarter; Villeneuve flees in Malta with four ships, all the remainder of the French fleet was taken or destroyed, and Bonaparte found insulated in Egypt (August 1798).

The French were awaited by more than one people like liberators: in Rome, as soon as they appeared, the pontifical government was reversed, the democrats met in the old Forum and y proclaimed the re-establishment of the Roman Republic (February 1798).

The king of Naples, by hatred of the Revolution, undertook to destroy the Roman republic, but the Championnet General ran to the help of the Romans and walked on Naples: the king flees shamefully on the English fleet; the French seized Naples and proclaimed there the Republic (January 1799).

The conscription was established under the Directory; a law returned in 1798 on the report/ratio of Jourdan establishes that any French contracts while being born the obligation to serve the fatherland, and divided young people from twenty to twenty-five years into five classes, intended to provide the conscripts necessary, while starting with young people.

The French deputies sent to Rastadt to carry words of peace to the Germans left the city in the car with their families, when Austrian hussards melted on them and sabred them (April 1799).

Thus the enemies of France, in their hatred of the Revolution, did not move back even in front of the infamy.